Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait
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“The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.”
Source: Woody Sez
“Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.”
“All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.”
“Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.”
“You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.”
“This machine kills fascists.”
Source: Haus aus Erde
“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
Source: Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait
Source: Bound for Glory
“If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.”
Source: Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait
Source: Every 100 Years - The Woody Guthrie Centennial Songbook: 100 Years - 100 Songs
“Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.”
Source: House of Earth
“This land is made for you and me.”
Source: Una casa di Terra
Source: Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait
“I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.”
“Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.”
Source: Woody Sez
“All you can write is what you see.”
Source: House of Earth
“Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.”
“One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!”
Source: Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait
“I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.”
“It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people”
Source: Woody Sez